Three miles as the crow flies from Finley, thirty-four miles from Deniliquin in New South Wales, stretched the avenue of peppertrees leading to the farm on the plain where Chester Eagle grew up in the 1940s. This is a book full of resonances: the charting of a family and a way of life which is at once uniquely the boy’s and as familiar to all of us as the fact of Hiroshima and the mythical figure of Bradman astride the land.
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